Adoption Studies and Postcolonial Inquiry

PosTcolonIal sTudIes and TRanslaTIon TheoRy

What distinguishes postcolonial approaches to translation is that they examine intercultural encounters in contexts marked by unequal power relations. Herein lie their strengths as well as their weaknesses. Their major contribution has been to illuminate the role of power in the production and reception of translation. But it is not certain that the postcolonial framework can be applied to othe...

Latin American postcolonial studies and global decolonization

Western metropolitan centers since the late 198os, it is to be expected that its further development would involve efforts, like this one, to take stock of its regional expressions. Yet, while the rubric "Latin American postcolonial studies" suggests the existence of a regional body of knowledge under that name, in reality it points to a problem: there is no corpus of work on Latin America comm...

Science in motion : what postcolonial science studies

One of the greatest contributions of Science and Technology Studies (STS), in the last 30 years, has been to show that the contours of science/technology and society are inextricably interwoven (Bloor [1976] 1991, Latour & Woolgar [1979] 1986; Knorr Cetina 1981; Shapin & Schaffer 1985; Latour 1987; Haraway 1991). These studies have highlighted that techno-scientific developments are path-depend...

“Listening for the echo”: Representation and resistance in postcolonial studies

" ThE Horror " : The Subject of Desire in Postcolonial Studies

and indeEmite categories of social theory" (p. 151), by considering consumption and exchange as well as production, symbolic capital as well as material capital, and the particular patterns of new social movements and resistance in the symbolic as well as the material world. There is much to argue about in these challenging views. Kearney is weakest at tying gender oppression and feminist movem...